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diameter at the base. Bark of the trunt grayish and smooth, 

 that of the minor branchleta ^jurplish green and glabrous. 

 (Leaves membranous, glabrous, the ^jetioles 7 to 10 mm. long, 

 canaliculate, subdecurrent on the branchlets, the blades 

 elliptic or obov^te, cuneate at the base, more or less ob- 

 tuse acuminate, the margin crenate and subrevolute. Floral 

 racemes axillary, 1 to 5-flowered, 2 to 4 times as long as the 

 petioles, the rachis minutely hairy, i'lowers sweet-scented, 

 sessile or very briefly pedicelled; calyx campanulate, 4 to 

 5-lobate, surrounded at the base with 3 to 5 very deciduous, 

 deltoid, ciliate bractlets; calyx lobes broadly rounded, ci- 

 liate on the margin; corolla pink, tubulous, the 5 ^etals 

 abo.it 10 aim. lolag, 4 to 5 mm. broad; stamens about 35, 3-se- 

 riate, adnate at the base, included, the free part of the fi- 

 laments flatteiied and apiculate a ^. the apex; anthers cordate; 

 ovary 4 to 5-Gelled; silky hairy; style slender, about 7 mm.' 

 long; stigma capitellate .) 



Deacription cf t'.ie wood 



Sapwood thick, very light yellow or nearly white; heart- 

 wood somev;hat darker. Wood soft, moderately heavy, tough, 

 strc.ii£, straight and fine grained, taking a fairly good po- 

 lish, not durable in contact with the soil. Annual rings 

 of growth not visible under the aigh power microscope. 



Pores t transverse section) very numerous, small, about 

 (.09 mm. in diameter), round, open, and arranged uniformly 

 throughout the wood, either singly or in radial rows. Vessel 

 walls ( longitudinal section) with numerous small bordered 

 pits. Perforations acalariform, sometimes as many as 12 

 bars. /Yood fibers about 1,858 mm. long, with rather thick 

 walls and relatively small lumina , and few bordered pits. 

 Wood parenchyma only sparingly developed. Hays small, from 

 1 to 4 cells wide and from 3 to 4 times as high. ' 



Diatribution, common names and uses 



Symplocos ohiriquensis , the camaleon of the natives, is 

 known only from the country aroui^d the Chiric[Ui Volcano, where 

 it seems to constitute one of the conspicuous elements of the 

 forests of the middle belt, being easily found out when loaded 

 with the profuse crop of its sweet scented flowers. 'i?he wood 

 is white and soft, and used only as fuel. 



